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described the painting as showing five Indians and Jemima in a canoe, each wondering when rescuers would come for her.
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Wimar returned to St. Louis in 1856. About this time, he painted a notable incident from the colonial era,
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In 1846 he began studying painting with Leon Pomarede. Together they traveled up the
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He is known for an early painting of a colonial incident: his
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Emigrants from the German Confederation to the United States
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Wimar primarily painted the themes of Indian life on the
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and two other girls by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party.
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Charles Ferdinand Wimar

Siegburg
St. Louis, Missouri
painter
Native Americans

Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Boonesborough, Kentucky
Jemima Boone
Siegburg
Germany
St. Louis, Missouri
Mississippi River
Düsseldorf Academy
Emanuel Leutze
Düsseldorf school of painting
Amon Carter Museum
Great Plains
Missouri River
murals
St. Louis Court House
Gateway Arch National Park
The Captive Charger, Charles Ferdinand Wimar, 1854
The Lost Trail, Charles Ferdinand Wimar, c. 1856.
"Indians on the Prairie", Charles Ferdinand Wimar, 1860
The Attack on an Emigrant Train, at the University of Michigan Museum of Art
University of Michigan Museum of Art

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